Photos and translations: The unique semi-pictographic dongba script of China’s Naxi people

Duncan Poupard

· Jan 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Five newly published poets reveal new directions for Indian poetry in English

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Jan 09, 2018 · 08:30 am

From clothing to recreation: An 1847 book gave British women advice on what to carry to India

Margaret Makepeace

· Jan 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Turning 200: The ‘Scottish Jane Austen’ was much more satirical about marriage than the real one

Susan Ferrier

· Jan 04, 2018 · 06:30 pm

What Ekin Oklap can tell readers about translating Orhan Pamuk

Ipshita Mitra

· Dec 31, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Illustrations: In the Dakhni romantic tale ‘Phulban’, love meets conspiracy and adventure

Sunil Sharma

· Dec 25, 2017 · 07:30 pm

JRR Tolkien’s Christmas letters to his children bring echoes of Middle-Earth to the North Pole

Dimitra Fimi, The Conversation

· Dec 23, 2017 · 05:30 pm

Arunachal author Mamang Dai among 24 winners of 2017 Sahitya Akademi awards

Scroll Staff

· Dec 21, 2017 · 08:12 pm

Lit fests are coming! Watch out for the moderator!! Or, rather, for the mad orator!!!

Krishna Shastri Devulapalli

· Dec 16, 2017 · 12:30 pm

If not for ‘Chandamama’, my generation may have never realised the beauty of age-old Indian tales

Mrinal Pande

· Dec 11, 2017 · 11:30 am

There’s a reason many more Indians might want to read the works of Clarice Lispector

Saudamini Deo

· Dec 10, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘Heidi’ in Hindi: A translation brings the classic children’s book to new readers. Will they care?

Neha Kirpal

· Dec 10, 2017 · 07:00 am

How dark is too dark for children’s literature? Writer Paro Anand believes there is no such thing

Paro Anand

· Dec 03, 2017 · 03:30 pm

What does ‘Orwellian’ (also ‘Dickensian’ and ‘Kafkaesque’) mean, anyway?

Nick Bentley, The Conversation

· Nov 28, 2017 · 05:30 pm

In Janice Pariat’s new novel, a woman’s story is told by nine different characters from her life

Janice Pariat

· Nov 28, 2017 · 08:30 am

It’s down from $50,000 to $25,000, but the DSC Prize is the richest literary prize in south Asia

Sayeeda Ahmad

· Nov 25, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘What lies beyond the fog?’ A variety never seen before in a collection of Urdu stories

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Nov 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

Easterine Kire, Pankaj Mishra, Prayaag Akbar, Pranay Lal bag top honours at the Tata Lit Live

Scroll Staff

· Nov 20, 2017 · 10:54 am

Jane Austen in Pakistan: A new book of short stories brings together two unlikely themes

Mahlia S Lone

· Nov 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

Two US doctors want to set a Tamil professorship at Harvard to take Sangam literature to the world

Vinita Govindarajan

· Nov 14, 2017 · 06:30 am